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Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge (www.neowin.net)

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Microsoft dangles $1 million prizes and Mercedes-AMG cars inside Edge as persistent pop-ups potentially spark fresh "bribery" backlash.

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[–] new_guy@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We started to use ad blockers in the early 2000s because no one could trust they were the 999,999 visitor to the website.

It sounded (and stills sounds) scammy.

[–] RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

It started with pop-up blockers.

Opera was the first major browser to incorporate tools to block pop-up ads; the Mozilla browser later improved on this by blocking only pop-ups generated as the page loads.[citation needed] In the early 2000s, all major web browsers except Internet Explorer let users block unwanted pop-ups almost completely. In 2004, Microsoft released Windows XP SP2, which added pop-up blocking to Internet Explorer. -Wikipedia